Can an app change your personality?
Research has shown that daily use of a smartphone app can lead to desired personality changes within three months.
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Cardivascular diseases: digital twin improves therapy
Using mathematical image processing, scientists have found a way to create digital twins from human hearts.
Are digital trackers for mental health fit for purpose?
Digital tracking of people with mental health conditions has the power to transform medical diagnostics and treatment, but its claims need careful scrutiny.
Neural networks could help predict future self-harm
Researchers have created artificial intelligence algorithm that can automatically identify patients at high risk of intentional self-harm, based on the information in the clinical notes in the electronic health record.
Augmented intelligence advances robotic surgery
TransEnterix, Inc. announced that a hospital in New Jersey successfully completed its first surgical procedures using the Intelligent Surgical UnitTM.
Surgical data science: data-driven assistance in the OR
In the next-generation operating room interconnected sensors will collect data, analyse it in real-time and make it available to digital assistance functions.
Brainlab acquires surgery game start up Level Ex
Brainlab announced the acquisition of Level Ex, a company that creates medical video games designed to advance the clinical skills of physicians and surgeons.
A 3D printed bluetooth enabled stethoscope
The digital stethoscope that makes it possible to listen to the heart and lungs of their patients while standing up to 50 feet away.
Humanising wearable health technologies
Designer Leah Heiss considers her work as creating “emotional technologies”, i.e. wearable devices based on human-centred design principles. For her, empathy is everything!
Covid-19: chatbots could be used to deliver psychotherapy
Researchers show chatbots could play a key role in helping people with issues around their health and wellbeing.
Verifying and validating the clinical usefulness of wearables
Researchers have developed a framework that will help data scientists and other researchers use better digital health tools for clinical purposes.
Deep learning accurately stains digital biopsy slides
Pathologists who examined the computationally stained images could not tell them apart from traditionally stained slides.
Digital transformation: From sick care to proactive health care
“The digital transformation will make healthcare even more human. It will enable us to provide preventive and personalized healthcare,” says Prof. Dr. Koen Kas, Professor of Oncology at Ghent University, Belgium.
Digital twin enables protective ventilation
A computational lung model can be used to reduce damage caused by mechanical ventilation – and could increase survival rates for patients significantly.
Virtual games help people stand and walk in rehab
Virtual reality video games, activity monitors, and handheld computer devices can help people stand as well as walk, the largest trial worldwide into the effects of digital devices in rehabilitation has found.
Hybrid microscope could bring digital biopsy to the clinic
By adding infrared capability to the ubiquitous, standard optical microscope, researchers hope to bring cancer diagnosis into the digital era.
Sony’s smart OR platform gains FDA clearance
Sony Electronics has received clearance for the company's NUCLeUS™ Operating Room, Imaging Management and Collaboration Control platform.
Nexkin: multiparametric monitoring shirt launched
Chronolife announced the launch of Nexkin, a washable smart T-shirt that monitors six key physiological parameters to enable prevention, risk reduction, and remote monitoring.
One step closer to soft medical sensors
Bioengineers have found a way to create stretchy and squeezy soft sensing devices by bonding rubber to electrical components.
AI predicts success of digital health interventions
A new statistical technique from the field of machine learning is now making it possible to predict the success of smartphone-based interventions more accurately.
Smart insole monitors foot health for diabetic patients
The smart insole can be inserted into a sneaker or dress shoe to passively monitor the foot health of a person living with diabetes.
Wearables, gamification improve exercise results
While using a wearable device alone may not always be enough to motivate more exercise, adding fun and competition can be the catalyst needed to drive real results.
Digital phenotyping helps to treat mental illness
Research shows that digital phenotyping can provide valuable information to mental health professionals about mental illness symptom severity and relapse.
An AI companion for lonely seniors
Scientists are creating chatbots thet can express and respond to emotion during a conversation—including AI companions that could help relieve loneliness for seniors.
Digital games may beat mindfulness apps at relieving stress
Digital games, typical of those on smartphones, may relieve stress more effectively than mindfulness apps, a new study shows.
‘Prescribed’ app offers hope to young people who self-harm
New research suggests that the 'BlueIce' app developed at University of Bath could have a significant impact in reducing self-harm in young people.
Digital twins could aid personalized therapy
Advanced computer models of diseases can be used to improve diagnosis and treatment. The goal is to develop the models to “digital twins” of individual patients.
About the usefulness of fertility apps
Analysing fertility awareness apps, researchers have been able to track behavior patterns and accuracy in measuring menstrual health and ovulation.
Digital twin for personalized therapies
Virtual doppelgangers could one day revolutionize medicine: Researchers are developing a digital twin, which should facilitate the development of personalized therapies.
